{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_23212/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_23212","id":"gutenberg_23212","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23212","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Encyclopedias/Dictionaries/Reference","Category: History - Other","Category: Journals","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Notes and Queries","Questions and answers -- Periodicals"],"text":"Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins\nand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at\nhttp://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images\ngenerously made available by The Internet Library of Early\nJournals.)\n\n\n\n\n\n{201}\n\nNOTES AND QUERIES:\n\nA MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,\nGENEALOGISTS, ETC.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\"When found, make a note of.\"--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNo. 72.]\nSATURDAY, MARCH 15. 1851.\n[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCONTENTS.\n\n  NOTES:--                                                   Page\n  Illustrations of Chaucer                                    201\n  Inedited Poetry, No. II., by K. R. H. Mackenzie             203\n  On a Passage in Marmion                                     203\n  Gloucestershire Provincialisms, by Albert Way               204\n  The Chapel of Loretto                                       205\n  Folk Lore:--\"Nettle in Dock out\"--Soul separates\n  from the Body--Lady's Trees--Norfolk Folk Lore\n  Rhymes                                                      205\n  Minor Notes:--Note for the Topographers of Ancient\n  London, and for the Monasticon--Gray and Burns--\n  Traditional Notice of Richard III.--Oliver Cromwell--\n  Snail-eating                                                206\n\n  QUERIES:--\n  Biddings in Wales                                           207\n  Minor Queries:--Lord of Relton--Beatrix de Bradney--\n  \"Letters on the British Museum\"--Ballad\n  Editing: The \"Outlandish Knight\"--Latin Epigram\n  on the Duchess of Eboli--Engraved Portrait--\n  Blackstone's Commentaries and Table of Precedence--\n  The Two Drs. Abercromby--Witte van Haemstede--J.\n  Bruckner: Dutch Church in Norwich                           208\n\n  MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--The Hereditary Earl\n  Marshal--The Beggar's Petition--\"Tiring-irons\n  never to be untied\"                                         209\n\n  REPLIES:--\n  The Meaning of Eisell, by H. K. S. Causton                  210\n  Replies to Minor Queries:--William Chilcott--Fossil\n  Elk of Ireland--Canes Lesos--\"By Hook or by\n  Crook\"--Suem--Sir George Downing--Miching\n  Malicho--Cor Linguae--Under the Rose--\"Impatient\n  to speak, and not see\"--Bishop Frampton--Old\n  Tract on the Eucharist--Was Hugh Peters ever on\n  the Stage?                                                  212\n\n  MISCELLANEOUS:--\n  Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.                      214\n  Books and Odd Volumes wanted                                215\n  Notices to Correspondents                                   215\n  Advertisements                                              215\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNotes.\n\nILLUSTRATIONS OF CHAUCER.\n\n(Vol. iii., pp. 131. 133.)\n\nI am glad to perceive that some of the correspondents of \"NOTES AND\nQUERIES\" are turning their attention to the elucidation of Chaucer. The\ntext of our father-poet, having remained as it were in fallow since the\ntime of Tyrwhitt, now presents a rich field for industry; and, in offering\nfree port and entry to all comments and suggestions, to be there sifted and\ngarnered up, the pages of \"NOTES AND QUERIES\" may soon become a depository\nfrom which ample materials may be obtained for a new edition of Chaucer,\nnow become an acknowledged desideratum.\n\nOne excellent illustration has lately been added, at page 133., in a note\nwithout signature upon \"Nettle in, dock out.\" If _confirmed_[1], it will\nfurnish not only a most satisfactory explanation of that hitherto\nincomprehensible phrase, but also a curious example of the faithful\npreservation of an exact form of words through centuries of oral tradition.\n\nAnd if the note which precedes it, at page 131., upon a passage in Palamon\nand Arcite, is less valuable, it is because it is deficient in one of the\nmost essential conditions which such communications ought to possess--that\nof originality. No suggestion ought to be offered which had been previously\npublished in connexion with the same subject: at least in any _very\nobvious_ place of reference, such as notes or glossaries already appended\nto well-known editions of the text.\n\nNow the precise explanation of the planetary distribution of the\ntwenty-four hours of the day, given by [Greek: e]. in the first portion of\nhis communication, was anticipated seventy or eighty years ago by Tyrwhitt\nin his note upon the same passage of Palamon and Arcite. And with respect\nto [Greek: e].'s second explanation of the meaning of \"houre inequal,\" that\nexpression also has been commented upon by Tyrwhitt, who attributes it to\nthe well-known expansive duration of ancient hours, the length of which was\nregulated by that of the natural day at the several seasons of the year:\nhence an _inequality_ always existed; except at the equinoxes, between\nhours before, and hours after, sunrise. This is undoubtedly the true\nexplanation, since Chaucer was, at the time, referring to hours before and\nafter sunrise upon the same day. On the contrary, [Greek: e].'s ecliptic\nhours, if they ever existed at all (he has cited no authority), would be\nobviously incompatible with the planetary disposition of the hours first\nreferred to.\n\nI shall now, in my turn, suggest explanations of the two new difficulties\nin Chaucer's text, to {202} which, at the conclusion of his note, [Greek:\ne]. has drawn attention.\n\nThe first is, that, \"with respect to the time of year at which the\ntournament takes place, there seems to be an inconsistency.\" Theseus fixes\n\"this day fifty wekes\" from the fourth of May, as the day on which the\nfinal contention must come off, and yet the day previous to the final\ncontention is afterwards alluded to as \"the lusty seson of that May,\"\nwhich, it is needless to say, would be inconsistent with an interval of\nfifty _ordinary_ weeks.\n\nBut fifty weeks, if taken in their literal sense of 350 days, would be a\nmost unmeaning interval for Theseus to fix upon,--it would almost require\nexplanation as much as the difficulty itself: it is therefore much easier\nto suppose that Chaucer meant to imply the interval of a solar year. Why he\nshould choose to express that interval by fifty, rather than by fifty-two,\nweeks, may be surmised in two ways: first, because the latter phrase would\nbe unpoetical and unmanageable; and, secondly, because he might fancy that\nthe week of the Pagan Theseus would be more appropriately represented by a\nlunar quarter than by a Jewish hebdomad.\n\nChaucer sometimes makes the strangest jumble--mixing up together Pagan\nmatters and Christian, Roman and Grecian, ancient and modern; so that\nalthough he names Sunday and Monday as two of the days of the week in\nAthens, he does so evidently for the purpose of introducing the allocation\nof the hours, alluded to before, to which the planetary names of the days\nof the week were absolutely necessary. But in the fifty weeks appointed by\nTheseus, the very same love of a little display of erudition would lead\nChaucer to choose the _hebdomas lunae_, or lunar quarter, which the Athenian\nyouth were wont to mark out by the celebration of a feast to Apollo on\nevery seventh day of the moon. But after the first twenty-eight days of\nevery lunar month, the weekly reckoning must have been discontinued for\nabout a day and a half (when the new moon was what was called \"in coitu,\"\nor invisible), after which a new reckoning of sevens would recommence.\nHence there could be but four hebdomades in each lunar month; and as there\nare about twelve and a half lunar months in a solar year, so must there\nhave been fifty lunar weeks in one solar year.\n\nIt will explain many anomalies, even in Shakspeare, if we suppose that our\nearly writers were content to show their knowledge of a subject in a few\nparticulars, and were by no means solicitous to preserve, what moderns\nwould call _keeping_, in the whole performance.\n\nThe next difficulty, adverted to by [Greek: e]., is the mention of the\nTHIRD as the morning upon which Palamon \"brake his prison,\" and Arcite went\ninto the woods \"to don his observaunce to May.\"\n\nThere is not perhaps in the whole of Chaucer's writings a more exquisite\npassage than that by which the latter circumstance is introduced; it is\nwell worth transcribing:--\n\n \"The besy larke, the messager of day,\n  Sal[=e]weth in hire song the morw[=e] gray;\n  And firy Phebus riseth up so bright,\n  That all the orient laugheth at the sight;\n  And with his strem[=e]s drieth in the greves\n  The silver drop[=e]s hanging on the leves.\"\n\nSuch is the description of the morning of the \"thridde of May;\" and\nperhaps, if no other mention of that date were to be found throughout\nChaucer's works, we might be justified in setting it down as a random\nexpression, to which no particular meaning was attached. But when we find\nit repeated in an entirely different poem, and the same \"observaunce to\nMay\" again associated with it, the conviction is forced upon us that it\ncannot be without some definite meaning.\n\nThis repetition occurs in the opening of the second book of _Troilus and\nCreseide_, where \"the thridde\" has not only \"observaunce to May\" again\nattributed to it, but also apparently some peculiar virtue in dreams. No\nsooner does Creseide behold Pandarus on the morning of the third of May,\nthan \"_by the hond on hie, she tooke him fast_,\" and tells him that she had\nthrice dreamed of him that night. Pandarus replies in what appears to have\nbeen a set form of words suitable to the occasion--\n\n \"Yea, nece, ye shall faren well the bet,\n  If God wull, all this yeare.\"\n\nNow unless the third of May were supposed to possess some unusual virtue,\nthe dreaming on that morning could scarcely confer a whole year's welfare.\nBut, be that as it may, there can at least be no doubt that Chaucer\ndesignedly associated _some_ celebration of the advent of May with the\nmorning of the third of that month.\n\nWithout absolutely asserting that my explanation is the true one, I may\nnevertheless suggest it until some better may be offered. It is, that the\nassociation may have originated in the invocation of the goddess Flora, by\nOvid, on that day (_Fasti_, v.), in order that she might inspire him with\nan explanation of the Floralia, or Floral games, which were celebrated in\nRome from the 28th of April to the _third_ of May.\n\nThese games, if transferred by Chaucer to Athens, would at once explain the\n\"gret feste\" and the \"lusty seson of that May.\"\n\nSupposing, then, that Chaucer, in the _Knight's Tale_, meant, as I think he\nmeant, to place the great combat on the anniversary of the fourth of\nMay--that being the day on which Theseus had intercepted the duel,--then\nthe entry into Athens of the rival companies would take place on {203}\n(Sunday) the second, and the sacrifices and feasting on the _third of May_,\nthe last of the Floralia.\n\nA. E. B.\n\n  Leeds, March 4, 1851.\n\n[Footnote 1: [Of which there can be no doubt. See further p. 205. of our\npresent Number.--ED.]]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nINEDITED POETRY, NO. II.\n\nCHORUS.\n\n(Harleian MSS., No. 367. fo. 154.)\n\n \"Is, is there nothing cann withstand\n          The hand\n      Of Time: but that it must\n      Be shaken into dust?\n  Then poore, poore Israelites are wee\n          Who see,\n  But cannot shunn the Graue's captivitie.\n\n \"Alas, good Browne! that Nature hath\n          No bath,\n      Or virtuous herbes to strayne,\n      To boyle[2] thee yong againe;\n  Yet could she (kind) but back command\n          Thy brand,\n  Herself would dye thou should'st be unman'd.\n\n \"But (ah!) the golden Ewer by [a] stroke,\n          Is broke,\n      And now the Almond Tree\n      With teares, with teares, we see,\n  Doth lowly lye, and with its fall\n          Do all\n  The daughters dye, that once were musicall.\n\n \"Thus yf weake builded man cann saye,\n          A day\n      He lives, 'tis all, for why?\n      He's sure at night to dye,\n  For fading man in fleshly lome[3]\n          Doth rome\n  Till he his graue find, His eternall home.\n\n \"Then farewell, farewell, man of men,\n          Till when\n      (For us the morners meet\n      Pal'd visag'd in the street,\n  To seale up this our britle birth\n          In earth,)\n  We meet with thee triumphant in our mirth.\"\n                  _Trinitaell Hall's Exequies._\n\nNow, to what does Hall refer in the third stanza, in his mention of the\nalmond-tree? Is it a classical allusion, as in the preceding stanza, or has\nit some reference to any botanical fact? I send the ballad, trusting that\nas an inedited morsel you will receive it.\n\nKENNETH R. H. MACKENZIE.\n\n    [We do not take _Hall_ here to be the name of a man, but Trinity Hall\n    at Cambridge.]\n\n[Footnote 2: The reader will recognise the classical allusion.]\n\n[Footnote 3: Loam, earth; roam.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nON A PASSAGE IN MARMION.\n\nI venture for the first time to trespass upon the attention of your readers\nin making the following remarks upon a passage in _Marmion_, which, as far\nas I know, has escaped the notice of all the critical writers whose\ncomments upon that celebrated poem have hitherto been published.\n\nIt will probably be remembered, that long after the main action of the poem\nand interest of the story have been brought to a close by the death of the\nhero on the field of Flodden, the following incident is thus pointedly\ndescribed:--\n\n  Short is my tale:--Fitz-Eustace' care\n  A pierced and mangled body bare\n  To moated Lichfield's lofty pile:\n  And there, beneath the southern aisle,\n  A tomb, with Gothic sculpture fair\n  Did long Lord Marmion's image bear,\n        &c. &c. &c.\n\n \"There erst was martial Marmion found,\n  His feet upon a couchant hound,\n    His hands to Heaven upraised:\n  And all around on scutcheon rich,\n  And tablet carved, and fretted niche,\n    His arms and feats were blazed.\n  And yet, though all was carved so fair,\n  And priest for Marmion breathed the prayer,\n  _The last Lord Marmion lay not there._\n  From Ettrick woods a peasant swain\n  Follow'd his lord to Flodden plain,--\n        &c. &c. &c.\n\n \"Sore wounded Sybil's Cross he spied,\n  And dragg'd him to its foot, and died,\n  Close by the noble Marmion's side.\n  The spoilers stripp'd and gash'd the slain,\n  And thus their corpses were mista'en;\n  And thus in the proud Baron's tomb,\n  The lowly woodsman took the room.\"\n\nNow, I ask, wherefore has the poet dwelt with such minuteness upon this\nforced and improbable incident? Had it indeed been with no other purpose\nthan to introduce the picturesque description and the moral reflexions\ncontained in the following section, the improbability might well be\nforgiven. But such is not the real object. The critic of the _Monthly\nReview_ takes the following notice of this passage, which is printed as a\nnote in the last edition of Scott's _Poems_ in 1833:--\n\n    \"A corpse is afterwards conveyed, as that of Marmion, to the cathedral\n    of Lichfield, where a magnificent tomb is erected to his memory, &c.\n    &c.; but, by an _admirably imagined act of poetical justice_, we are\n    informed that a peasant's body was placed beneath that costly monument,\n    while the haughty Baron himself was buried like a vulgar corpse on the\n    spot where he died.\"\n\nHad the reviewer attempted to penetrate a little deeper into the workings\nof the author's mind, he would have seen in this circumstance much more\nthan \"an admirably imagined act of poetical {204} justice.\" He would have\nperceived in it the ultimate and literal fulfilment of the whole penalty\nforeshadowed to the delinquent baron in the two concluding stanzas of that\nbeautiful and touching song sung by Fitz-Eustace in the Hostelrie of\nGifford in the third canto of the poem, which I here transcribe:\n\n \"Where shall the traitor rest,\n    He the deceiver,\n  Who could win maiden's breast,\n    Ruin, and leave her?\n  In the lost battle\n    Borne down by the flying,\n  Where mingles war's rattle,\n    With groans of the dying--\n      There shall he be lying.\n  Her wing shall the eagle flap\n    O'er the false-hearted,\n  His warm blood the wolf shall lap\n    Ere life be parted.\n  _Shame and dishonour sit_\n    _By his grave ever;_\n  _Blessing shall hallow it,_\n    _Never, O never!_\"\n\nThen follows the effect produced upon the conscience of the \"Traitor,\"\ndescribed in these powerful lines:--\n\n \"It ceased. the melancholy sound;\n  And silence sunk on all around.\n  The air was sad; but sadder still\n    It fell on Marmion's ear,\n  And plain'd as if disgrace and ill,\n    And shameful death, were near.\"\n        &c. &c. &c.\n\nAnd lastly, when the life of the wounded baron is ebbing forth with his\nblood on the field of battle, when--\n\n \"The Monk, with unavailing cares\n  Exhausted all the Church's prayers--\n  Ever, he said, that, close and near,\n  A lady's voice was in his ear,\n  And that the priest he could not hear--\n    For that she ever sung,\n '_In the lost battle, borne down by the flying,_\n  _Where mingles war's rattle with groans of the dying!_'--\n    So the notes ring.\"\n\nI am the more disposed to submit these remarks to your readers, because it\nis highly interesting to trace an irresistible tendency in the genius of\nthis mighty author towards the fulfilment of prophetic legends and visions\nof second sight: and not to extend this paper to an inconvenient length, I\npurpose to resume the subject in a future number, and collate some other\nexamples of a similar character from the works of Sir Walter Scott.\n\nI write from the southern slopes of Cheviot, almost within sight of the\nHill of Flodden. During the latter years of the great Border Minstrel, I\nhad the happiness to rank myself among the number of his friends and\nacquaintances, and I revere his memory as much as I prized his friendship.\n\nA BORDERER.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nGLOUCESTERSHIRE PROVINCIALISMS.\n\n_To burl, burling; to shunt, &c._--In the report of the evidence regarding\nthe death of Mrs. Hathway, at Chipping Sodbury, supposed to have been\npoisoned by her husband, the following dialectical expression occurs, which\nmay deserve notice. One of the witnesses stated that he was invited by Mr.\nHathway to go with him into a beer-house in Frampton Cotterell, \"and have a\ntip,\" but he declined.\n\n    \"Mr. H. went in and called for a quart of beer, and then came out\n    again, and I went in. He told me 'to burl out the beer, as he was in a\n    hurry;' and I 'burled' out a glass and gave it to him.\"--_Times_, Feb.\n    28.\n\nI am not aware that the use of this verb, as a provincialism, has been\nnoticed; it is not so given by Boucher, Holloway, or Halliwell. In the\nCumberland dialect, a _birler_, or _burler_, is the master of the revels,\nwho presides over the feast at a Cumberland bidden-wedding, and takes\nespecial care that the drink be plentifully provided. (_Westmoreland and\nCumberland Dialects_, London, 1839.)\n\nBoucher and Jamieson have collected much regarding the obsolete use of the\nverb _to birle_, to carouse, to pour out liquor. See also Mr. Dyce's notes\non _Elynour Rummyng_, v. 269. (_Skelton's Works_, vol. ii. p. 167.). It is\na good old Anglo-Saxon word--byrlian, _propinare_, _haurire_. In the\nWycliffite versions it occurs repeatedly, signifying to give to drink. See\nthe Glossary to the valuable edition lately completed by Sir F. Madden and\nMr. Forshall.\n\nIn the _Promptorium Parvulorum_, vol i. p. 51., we find--\n\n    \"Bryllare of drynke, or schenkare: Bryllyn, or schenk drynke,\n    _propino_: Bryllynge of drynke,\" &c.\n\nWhilst on the subject of dialectical expressions, I would mention an\nobsolete term which has by some singular chance recently been revived, and\nis actually in daily use throughout England in the railway vocabulary--I\nmean the verb \"to shunt.\" Nothing is more common than to see announced,\nthat at a certain station the parliamentary \"shunts\" to let the Express\npass; or to hear the order--\"shunt that truck,\" push it aside, off the main\nline. In the curious ballad put forth in 1550, called \"John Nobody\"\n(Strype's _Life of Cranmer_, App. p. 138.), in derision of the Reformed\nchurch, the writer describes how, hearing the sound of a \"synagogue,\"\nnamely, a congregation of the new faith, he hid himself in alarm:\n\n \"The I drew me down into a dale, wheras the dumb deer\n  Did shiver for a shower, but I shunted from a freyke,\n  For I would no wight in this world wist who I were.\"\n\n{205}\n\nIn the Townley Mysteries, _Ascensio Domini_, p. 303., the Virgin Mary calls\nupon St. John to protect her against the Jews,--\n\n \"Mi fleshe it qwakes, as lefe on lynde,\n  To shontt the shrowres sharper than thorne,\"--\n\nexplained in the Glossary, \"sconce or ward off.\" Sewel, in his _English and\nDutch Dictionary_, 1766, gives--\"to shunt (a country word for to shove),\n_schuiven_.\" I do not find \"shunt,\" however, in the Provincial Glossaries:\nin some parts of the south, \"to shun\" is used in this sense. Thus, in an\nassault case at Reigate, I heard the complainant say of a man who had\nhustled him, \"He kept shunning me along: sometimes he shunt me on the\nroad,\" that is, pushed me off the footpath on to the highway.\n\nI hope that the Philological Society has not abandoned their project of\ncompiling a complete Provincial Glossary: the difficulties of such an\nundertaking might be materially aided through the medium of \"NOTES AND\nQUERIES.\"\n\nALBERT WAY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE CHAPEL OF LORETTO.\n\nAmong the aerial migrations of the chapel of Loretto, it is possible that\nour own country may hereafter be favoured by a visit of that celebrated\nstructure. In the mean time, as I am not aware that the contributions of\nour countrymen to its history have been hitherto commemorated, the\nfollowing extract from a note, made by me on the spot some years ago, may\nnot be unsuitable for publication in \"NOTES AND QUERIES.\" As I had neither\nthe time nor the patience which the pious, but rather prolix, Scotchman\nbestowed upon his composition, I found it necessary to content myself with\na mere abstract of the larger portion.\n\nThe story of the holy House of Loretto is engraved on brass in several\nlanguages upon the walls of the church at Loretto. Among others, there are\ntwo tablets with the story in English, headed \"The wondrus flittinge of the\nkirk of our blest Lady of Laureto.\" It commences by stating that this kirk\nis the chamber of the house of the Blessed Virgin, in Nazareth, where our\nSaviour was born; that after the Ascension the Apostles hallowed and made\nit a kirk, and \"S. Luke framed a pictur to har vary liknes thair zit to be\nseine;\" that it was \"haunted with muckle devotione by the folke of the land\nwhar it stud, till the people went after the errour of Mahomet,\" when\nangels took it to Slavonia, near a place called Flumen: here it was not\nhonoured as it ought to be, and they took it to a wood near Recanati,\nbelonging to a lady named Laureto, whence it took its name. On account of\nthe thieveries here committed, it was again taken up and placed near, on a\nspot belonging to two brothers, who quarrelled about the possession of the\noblations offered there; and again it was removed to the roadside, near\nwhere it now stands. It is further stated that it stands without\nfoundations, and that sixteen persons being sent from Recanati to measure\nthe foundations still remaining at Nazareth, they were found exactly to\nagree:\n\n    \"And from that tim fourth it has beine surly ken'd that this kirk was\n    the Cammber of the B. V. whereto Christian begun thare and has ever\n    efter had muckle devotione, for that in it daily she hes dun and dus\n    many and many mirakels. Ane Frier Paule, of Sylva, an eremit of muckle\n    godliness who wond in a cell neir, by this kirk, whar daily he went to\n    mattins, seid that for ten zeirs, one the eighth of September, tweye\n    hours before day, he saw a light descende from heaven upon it, whelk he\n    seyd was the B. V. wha their shawed harselfe one the feest of her\n    birthe.\"\n\nThen follows the evidence of Paule Renalduci, whose grandsire's grandsire\nsaw the angels bring the house over the sea: also the evidence of Francis\nPrior, whose grandsire, a hunter, often saw it in the wood, and whose\ngrandsire's grandsire had a house close by. The inscription thus\nterminates:--\n\n    \"I, Robt. Corbington, priest of the Companie of Iesus in the zeir\n    MDCXXXV., have treulie translated the premisses out of the Latin story\n    hanged up in the seid kirk.\"\n\nS. SMIRKE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFOLK LORE.\n\n\"_Nettle in Dock out_\" (Vol. iii., p. 133.).--If your correspondent will\nrefer to _The Literary Gazette_, March 24, 1849, No. 1679., he will find\nthat I gave precisely the same explanation of that obscure passage of\nChaucer's _Troilus and Creseide_, lib. iv., in a paper which I contributed\nto the British Archaeological Association.\n\nFRAS. CROSSLEY.\n\n    [We will add two further illustrations of this passage of Chaucer, and\n    the popular rhyme on which it is founded. The first is from Mr.\n    Akerman's _Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in Use in\n    Wiltshire_, where we read--\n\n    \"When a child is stung, he plucks a dock-leaf, and laying it on the\n    part affected, sings--\n\n         'Out 'ettle\n          In dock\n      Dock shall ha a new smock;\n         'Ettle zhant\n          Ha' narrun.'\"\n\nThen follows a reference by Mr. Akerman to the passage in _Troilus and\nCreseide_.--Our second illustration is from Chaucer himself, who, in his\n_Testament of Love_ (p. 482 ed. Urry), has the following passage:\n\n    \"Ye wete well Ladie eke (quoth I), that I have not plaid raket, Nettle\n    in, Docke out, and with the weathercocke waved.\"\n\nMr. Akerman's work was, we believe, published in {206} 1846; and, at all\nevents, attention was called to these passages in the _Athenaeum_ of the\nl2th September in that year, No. 985.]\n\n_Soul separates from the Body._--In Vol. ii., p. 506., is an allusion to an\nancient superstition, that the human soul sometimes leaves the body of a\nsleeping person and takes another form; allow me to mention that I\nremember, some forty years ago, hearing a servant from Lincolnshire relate\na story of two travellers who laid down by the road-side to rest, and one\nfell asleep. The other, seeing a bee settle on a neighbouring wall and go\ninto a little hole, put the end of his staff in the hole, and so imprisoned\nthe bee. Wishing to pursue his journey, he endeavoured to awaken his\ncompanion, but was unable to do so, till, resuming his stick, the bee flew\nto the sleeping man and went into his ear. His companion then awoke him,\nremarking how soundly he had been sleeping, and asked what had he been\ndreaming of? \"Oh!\" said he, \"I dreamt that you shut me up in a dark cave\nand I could not awake till you let me out.\" The person who told me the\nstory firmly believed that the man's soul was in the bee.\n\nF. S.\n\n_Lady's Trees._--In some parts of Cornwall, small branches of sea-weed,\ndried and fastened in turned wooden stands, are set up as ornaments on the\nchimney-piece, &c. The poor people suppose that they preserve the house\nfrom fire, and they are known by the name of \"_Lady's trees_,\" in honour, I\npresume, of the Virgin Mary.\n\nH. G. T.\n\n  Launceston.\n\n_Norfolk Folk Lore Rhymes._--I have met with the rhymes following, which\nmay not be uninteresting to some of your readers as _Folk Lore, Norfolk_:--\n\n \"Rising was, Lynn is, and Downham shall be,\n  The greatest seaport of the three.\"\n\nAnother version of the same runs thus:\n\n \"Risin was a seaport town,\n    And Lynn it was a wash,\n  But now Lynn is a seaport Lynn,\n    And Rising fares the worst.\"\n\nAlso another satirical tradition in rhyme:\n\n \"That nasty stinking sink-hole of sin,\n  Which the map of the county denominates Lynn.\"\n\nAlso:\n\n \"Caistor was a city ere Norwich was none,\n  And Norwich was built of Caistor stone.\"\n\nJOHN NURSE CHADWICK.\n\n  King's Lynn.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMinor Notes.\n\n_Note for the Topographers of Ancient London, and for the Monasticon._--\n\n    \"Walter Grendon, Prior of the hospital of St John of Jerusalem,\n    acknowledges to have received, by the hands of Robert Upgate and Ralph\n    Halstede,--from Margaret, widow of S^r John Philippott K^t,--Thomas\n    Goodlak and their partners,--4 pounds in full payment of arrears of all\n    the rent due to us from their tenement called Jesoreshall in the city\n    of London.\n\n    \"Dated 1. December, 1406.\"\n\nFrom the original in the Surrenden collection.\n\nL. B. L.\n\n_Gray and Burns._--\n\n    \"Authors, before they write, should read.\"\n\nSo thought Matthew Prior; and if that rule had been attended to, neither\nwould Lord Byron have deemed it worth notice that \"_the knell of parting\nday_,\" in Gray's Elegy, \"was adopted from Dante;\" nor would Mr. Cary have\nremarked upon \"this plagiarism,\" if indeed _he_ used the term. (I refer to\n\"NOTES AND QUERIES,\" Vol. iii., p. 35.) The truth is, that in every good\nedition of Gray's _Works_, there is a note to the line in question, _by the\npoet himself_, expressly stating that the passage is \"_an imitation of the\nquotation from Dante_\" thus brought forward.\n\nI could furnish you with various _notes_ on Gray, pointing out remarkable\ncoincidences of sentiment and expression between himself and other writers;\nbut I cannot allow _Gray_ to be a plagiary, any more than I can allow\n_Burns_ to be so designated, in the following instances:--\n\nAt the end of the poem called _The Vision_, we find--\n\n \"And like a passing thought she fled.\"\n\nIn _Hesiod_ we have--\n\n \"[Greek: ho d' eptato hoste noema.]\"--_Scut. Herc._ 222.\n\nAgain, few persons are unacquainted with Burns's lines--\n\n \"Her 'prentice han' she tried on man,\n  An' then she made,\" &c.\n\nIn an old play, _Cupid's Whirligig_ (4to. 1607), we read--\n\n    \"Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was\n    a skilful mistress of her art.\"\n\nPliny, in his _Natural History_, has the pretty notion that\n\n    \"Nature, in learning to form a lily, turned out a convolvulus.\"\n\nVARRO.\n\n_Richard III., Traditional Notice of._--I have an aunt, now eighty-nine\nyears of age, who in early life knew one who was in the habit of saying:\n\n    \"I knew a man, who knew a man, who knew a man who danced at court in\n    the days of Richard III.\"\n\nThus there have been but three links between one who knew Richard III. and\none now alive.\n\nMy aunt's acquaintance could name his three predecessors, who were members\nof his own family: {207} their names have been forgotten, but his name was\nHarrison, and he was a member of an old Yorkshire family, and late in life\nsettled in Bedfordshire.\n\nRichard died in 1484, and thus five persons have sufficed to chronicle an\nincident which occurred nearly 370 years since.\n\nMr. Harrison further stated that there was nothing remarkable about\nRichard, that he was not the hunchback \"lump of foul deformity\" so\ngenerally believed until of late years.\n\nThe foregoing anecdote may be of interest as showing that traditions may\ncome down from remote periods by few links, and thus be but little\ndiffering from the actual occurrences.\n\nH. J. B.\n\n  66. Hamilton Terrace,\n  St. John's Wood, March 5. 1851.\n\n_Oliver Cromwell._--Echard says that his highness sold himself to the\ndevil, and _that he had seen the solemn compact_. Anthony a Wood, who\ndoubtless credited this account of a furious brother loyalist, in his\nJournal says:\n\n    \"Aug. 30, 1658. Monday, a terrible raging wind happened, which did much\n    damage. Dennis Bond, a great Oliverian and anti-monarchist, died on\n    that day, and then the devil took _bond_ for Oliver's appearance.\"\n\nClarendon, assigning the Protector to eternal perdition, not liking to lose\nthe portent, boldly says the remarkable hurricane occurred on September 3,\nthe day of Oliver's death. Oliver's admirers, on the other hand, represent\nthis wind as ushering him into the other world, but for a very different\nreason.\n\nHeath, in his _Flagellum_ (I have the 4th edit.), says:\n\n    It pleased God to usher in his end with a great whale _some three\n    months before_, June 2, that came up as far as Greenwich, and there was\n    killed; and more immediately by a terrible storm of wind: the\n    prognosticks that the great Leviathan of men, that tempest and\n    overthrow of government, was now going to his own place!\"\n\nI have several works concerning Cromwell, but in no other do I find this\nstory very like a whale. Would some reader of better opportunities favour\nus with a record of these two matters of natural history, not as connected\nwith the death of this remarkable man, but as mere events? Your well-read\nreaders will remember some similar tales relative to the death of Cardinal\nMazarine. These exuberances of vulgar minds may partly be attributed to the\ncredulity of the age, but more probably to the same want of philosophy\nwhich caused the ancients to deal in exaggeration.\n\nB. B.\n\n_Snail-eating._--The practice of _eating_, if not of talking to, snails,\nseems not to be so unknown in this country as some of your readers might\nimagine. I was just now interrogating a village child in reference to the\naddresses to snails quoted under the head of \"FOLK LORE,\" Vol. iii., pp.\n132. and 179., when she acquainted me with the not very appetising fact,\nthat she and her brothers and sisters had been in the constant habit of\nindulging this horrible _Limacotrophy_.\n\n    \"We hooks them out of the wall (she says) with a stick, in winter time,\n    and not in summer time (so it seems they have their seasons); and we\n    roasts them, and, when they've done spitting, they be a-done; and we\n    takes them out with a fork, and eats them. Sometimes we has a jug\n    heaped up, pretty near my pinafore-full. I loves them dearly.\"\n\nSurely this little bit of practical cottage economy is worth recording.\n\nC. W. B.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nQueries.\n\nBIDDINGS IN WALES.\n\nThere is a nursery song beginning--\n\n \"Harry Parry, when will you marry?\n    When apples and pears are ripe.\n  I'll come to your wedding, without any bidding,\n    And,\" &c. &c. &c.\n\nDoes this mean that I will come without an invitation, or without a\nmarriage-present? It will be observed that Parry is a Welsh name, and that\nbidding is a Welsh custom, as is shown by MR. SPURRELL (Vol. iii., p.\n114.). He has anticipated my intention of sending you a bidding-form, which\nhas been lying upon my table for some weeks, but which I have not had time\nto transcribe; I now send it you, because it somewhat varies from MR.\nSPURRELL'S, and yet so much resembles it as to show that the same formula\nis preserved. Both show that the presents are considered as debts,\ntransferable or assignable to other parties. Is this the case in all\ndistricts of Wales where the custom of bidding prevails? I think I have\nheard that in some places the gift is to be returned only when the actual\ndonor \"enters into the matrimonial state.\" It will be observed, too, in\nthese forms, relations only transfer to relations. Is it considered that\nthey may assign to persons not relations? Some of your Welsh correspondents\nmay reply to these questions, which may elucidate all the varieties of\npractice in a custom which contributes much to the comfort of a young\ncouple, and, in many instances, is an incentive to prudence, because they\nare aware that the debt is a debt of honour, not to be evaded without some\nloss of character.\n\n\n\n    \"December 26. 1806.\n\n    \"As we intend to enter the Matrimonial State on _Tuesday_ the 20th of\n    _January_, 1807, we purpose to make a Bidding on the occasion the same\n    day for the young man at his father's house, in the village of\n    _Llansaint_, in the parish of _St. Ishmael_; and for the young {208}\n    woman, at her own house, in the said village of _Llansaint_; at either\n    of which places the favour of your good company on that day will be\n    deemed a peculiar obligation; and whatever donation you may be pleased\n    to confer on either of us then, will be gratefully received, and\n    cheerfully repaid whenever required on a similar occasion, by\n\n  Your humble servants,\n              SETH REES,\n              ANN JENKINS.\n\n    \"The young man's father and mother, and also the young woman's father\n    and mother, and sister Amy, desire that all gifts of the above nature\n    due to them, may be returned on the same day; and will be thankful for\n    all favour shown the young couple.\"\n\nE. H.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMinor Queries.\n\n_Lord of Relton_ (Vol. iii., p. 56.)--Will your correspondent MONKBARNS\nfavour me with the date of the paper from which he copied the paragraph\nquoted, and whether it was given as being then in use, or as of ancient\ndate?\n\nCan any of your readers inform me from what place the Lord of Relton\nderived his name? What was his proper name, and who is the present\nrepresentative of the family?\n\nIs there any family of the name of Relton now existing in the neighbourhood\nof Langholme, or in Cumberland or Westmoreland?\n\nF. B. RELTON.\n\n_Beatrix de Bradney._--In your \"NOTES AND QUERIES\" for January 25th, 1851,\np. 61., you have given Sir Henry Chauncy's Observations on Wilfred\nEntwysel.\n\nSir Bertin left a daughter named Lucy, of whom Master Bradene of\nNorthamptonshire is descended. Can F. R. R., or any genealogist, inform me\nwhether this Master Bradene is descended from Simon de Bradney, one of the\nKnights of the Shire for Somersetshire in the year 1346? In Collins's\n_Somersetshire_, vol. iii. p. 92., he mentions:\n\n    \"In St. Michael's Church, Bawdrip, under a large Gothic arch lies the\n    effigy in armour of Sir Simon de Bradney or Bredenie.\n\n    \"The Manor of Bradney, in Somersetshire, supposed to have ended in\n    Beatrix de Bradney, an heiress, and passed with her into other\n    families; this Beatrix was living in the forty-sixth year of Edward\n    III.\"\n\nCan you inform me whom she married? About sixty-five years ago it was\npurchased by the late Joseph Bradney, Esq., of Ham, near Richmond; and his\nsecond son, the Reverend Joseph Bradney, of Greet, near Tenbury,\nShropshire, is the present possessor.\n\nJULIA R. BOCKETT.\n\n  Southcote Lodge, near Reading.\n\n\"_Letters on the British Museum._\"--In the year 1767 was published by\nDodsley a work in 12mo. pp. 92., with the above title; and at p. 85. is\nprinted \"A Pastoral Dialogue,\" between _Celia_ and _Ebron_, beginning, \"As\nCelia rested in the shade,\" which the author states he \"found among the\nmanuscripts.\" I wish to know, first, who was the anonymous author of these\nletters; and, secondly, in what collection of manuscripts this \"Dialogue\"\nis to be found.\n\n[mu].\n\n_Ballad Editing._--The \"_Outlandish Knight_\" (Vol. iii.,p. 49.).--I was\nexceedingly glad to see Mr. F. Sheldon's \"valuable contribution to our\nstock of ballad literature\" in the hands of Mr. Rimbault, and thought the\ntreatment it received no better than it deserved. _Blackwood_, May, 1847,\nreviewed Mr. Sheldon's book, and pointed out several instances of his\n\"godfathership;\" among others, his ballad of the \"Outlandish Knight,\" which\nhe obtained from \"a copy in the possession of a gentleman at Newcastle,\"\nwas condemned by the reviewer as \"a vamped version of the Scotch ballad of\n'May Collean.'\" It may be as the reviewer states, but the question I would\nwish answered is one affecting the reviewer himself; for, if I mistake not,\nthe Southron \"Outlandish Knight\" is the original of \"May Collean\" itself. I\nhave by me a copy, in black letter, of the \"Outlandish Knight,\" English in\nevery respect, and as such differing considerably from Mr. Sheldon's border\nedition, and from \"May Collean;\" and, with some slight alterations, the\nballad I have is yet popularly known through the midland counties. If any\nof your correspondents can oblige me with a reference to the first\nappearance of \"May Collean,\" sheet or book, I shall esteem it a favour.\n\nEMUN.\n\n  Birmingham.\n\n_Latin Epigram on the Duchess of Eboli._--In his controversy with Bowles\ntouching the poetry of Pope, Byron states that it was upon the Princess of\nEboli, mistress of Philip II. of Spain, and Mangirow, the minion of Henry\nIII. of France, that the famous Latin epigram, so well known to classic\nreaders, was composed, concluding with the couplet:\n\n \"Blande puer lumen quod habes concede parenti,\n    Sic tu caecus Amor, sic erit illa Venus.\"\n\nCan any contributor to the \"NOTES AND QUERIES\" suggest what authority his\nlordship has for his statement? Many years since, a curious paragraph\nappeared in one of the public journals, extracted apparently from an\nhistorical work, specifying the extraordinary political embroglios which\nthe one-eyed duchess occasioned, eliciting from one of the statesmen of her\ntimes the complimentary declaration, that if she had had two eyes instead\nof only one, she would have set the universe on fire. A reference to this\nwork--I fancy one of Roscoe's--would be of material service to an\nhistorical inquirer.\n\nC. R. H.\n\n{209}\n\n_Engraved Portrait._--\n\n \"All that thou see'st and readest is divine,\n  Learning thus us'd is water turn'd to wine;\n  Well may wee then despaire to draw his minde,\n  View here the case; i'th Booke the Jewell finde.\"\n\nThe above quatrain is placed beneath a portrait characteristically engraved\nby Cross. Above the head is the following inscription:--\n\n \"AEtatis Suae 50\u0219. Octob. 10. 1649.\"\n\nOf whom is this a portrait? It is no doubt well known to collectors, and is\nof course a frontispiece; but having never yet seen it _vis-a-vis_ with a\ntitle-page, I am at a loss as to the author of whom it is the _vera\neffigies_. Possibly some of your readers will be kind enough to enlighten\nme upon the matter, and favour me with the name of the British worthy thus\nhanded down to posterity by Cross's admirable burin.\n\nHENRY CAMPKIN.\n\n_Blackstone's Commentaries and Table of Precedence._--The first edition of\nBlackstone was published at Oxford in 4to., in the year 1765; and the Table\nof Precedence, in the 12th chapter of the First Book, found in subsequent\neditions edited by Mr. Christian, does not occur in Blackstone's first\nedition. Can any of your readers, having access to good legal theories,\ninform me in which of Blackstone's _own_ editions the Table of Precedence\nwas first inserted?\n\nE.\n\n_The Two Drs. Abercromby._--In the latter half of the seventeenth century,\nthere were two physicians of the name of Abercromby, who both graduated at\nthe university of Leyden, and were afterwards the authors of various\npublished works. The first work of David Abercromby mentioned in Watt's\n_Bibliotheca_ is dated in 1684, and the first written by Patrick Abercromby\nin 1707. As it was usual to compose an inaugural dissertation at obtaining\nthe doctorate, and such productions were ordinarily printed (in small\nquarto), J. K. would feel obliged by the titles and dates of the inaugural\ndissertations of either or both of the physicians above mentioned.\n\n_Witte van Haemstede._--Can any of your readers inform me whether there\nstill exist any descendants of _Witte van Haemstede_, an illegitimate scion\nof the ancient house of _Holland_? _Willem de Water_, in his _Adelijke\nZeeland_, written in the seventeenth century, says that in his youth he\nknew a _Witte van Haemstede_ of this family, one of whose sons became\npastor of the Dutch congregation in _London_.--_Navorscher_, Jan. 1851, p.\n17.\n\n_J. Bruckner--Dutch Church in Norwich._--In the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for\n1804 is a short memoir of the Rev. J. Bruckner. He was born in the island\nof Cadsand, completed his studies at Leyden, where he enjoyed the society\nof Hemsterhuis, Valckenaer, and the elder Schultens. In 1753 he became\npastor of the Walloon, and afterwards of the Dutch congregation in Norwich,\nwhere he remained till his death in May, 1804. In 1767 he published at\nLeyden his _Theorie du Systeme Animal_; in 1790 appeared his _Criticisms on\nthe Diversions of Purley_.\n\nCould your correspondents furnish me with a complete list of Bruckner's\nworks, and direct me to a history of the Dutch church in Norwich, from its\norigin to the present time?--_Navorscher_, Feb. 1851, p. 28.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMinor Queries Answered.\n\n    [Under this heading we propose to give such Minor Queries as we are\n    able to reply to at once, but which are not of a nature to be answered\n    with advantage in our Notices to Correspondents. We hope by this means\n    to economise our space.]\n\n_The Hereditary Earl Marshal._--Miss Martineau, in her _History of\nEngland_, book iii. ch. 8., speaks (in 1829) of\n\n    \"three Catholic peers, the _Duke of Norfolk_, Lord Clifford, and Lord\n    Dormer, having obtained entrance _at last_ to the legislative assembly,\n    where their fathers sat and ruled when their faith was the law of the\n    land.\"\n\nIn Lord Campbell's _Lives of the Chancellors_, there is an anecdote, vol.\nvii. p. 695., of the Duke of Norfolk falling asleep and _snoring_ in the\nHouse of Lords, while Lord Eldon was on the woolsack. Did not the Duke of\nNorfolk (though Roman Catholic) sit and vote in the House of Lords, either\nby prescription or special act of parliament, before 1829?\n\nJ. H. S.\n\n    [The anecdote told by Lord Campbell (but much better by Lord Eldon\n    himself in Twiss's Life of the great Chancellor), does not refer to the\n    _late_ Duke of Norfolk, but to his predecessor Charles (the eleventh\n    duke), who was a Protestant. The late duke never sat in parliament till\n    after the Relief Bill passed. In 1824 a Bill was passed to enable him\n    to exercise the office of Earl Marshal without taking certain oaths,\n    but gave him no seat in the House. We may as well add, that Lord\n    Eldon's joke must have been perpetrated--not on the bringing up of the\n    Bill, when the duke was not in the House--but on the occasion of the\n    _Great Snoring Bill being reported_ (April 2, 1811), when the duke\n    appears to have been present.]\n\n_The Beggar's Petition._--I shall feel obliged by your informing me who the\nauthor is of the lines--\n\n \"Pity the sorrows of a poor old man,\n  Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door.\"\n\nS.\n\n    [The authorship of this little poem has at times excited a good deal of\n    attention. It has been attributed, on no very sufficient grounds, to\n    Dr. Joshua Webster, M.D.; but from the _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol.\n    lxx., p. 41., it appears that it is the entire production of the {210}\n    Rev. Thomas Moss, minister of Brierly Hill and Trentham, in\n    Staffordshire, who wrote it at about the age of twenty-three. He sold\n    the manuscript of that, and of several others, to Mr. Smart, printer,\n    in Wolverhampton, who, from the dread which Mr. Moss had of criticism,\n    was to publish them on this condition, that only twenty copies should\n    have his name annexed to them, for the purpose of being presented to\n    his relations and friends.]\n\n\"_Tiring-irons never to be untied._\"--To what does Lightfoot (vol. vii. p.\n214.) refer when, in speaking of the Scriptures, he says--\n\n    \"They are not unriddleable riddles, and tiring-irons never to be\n    untied\"?\n\nJ. EASTWOOD.\n\n  Ecclesfield.\n\n    [The allusion is to a puzzle for children--often used by grown\n    children--which consists of a series of iron rings, on to or off which\n    a loop of iron wire may be got with some labour by those who know the\n    way, and which is very correctly designated _a tiring-iron_.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nReplies.\n\nTHE MEANING OF EISELL.\n\n    [This controversy is becoming a little too warm for our pages. But MR.\n    CAUSTON is entitled to have some portion of the letter he has sent to\n    us inserted. He writes with reference to the communications from MR.\n    HICKSON and MR. SINGER in our 68th number, p. 119., in reply to MR.\n    C.'S Article, which, although it had been in our hands a considerable\n    time, was not inserted until out 65th Number, p. 66.; a delay which\n    gave to that article the appearance of an attempt to revive a\n    discussion, whereas it really was written only in continuance of one.]\n\nTo MR. HICKSON I suggest, that whether the notion of \"drinking up a river,\"\nor \"eating a crocodile,\" be the more \"unmeaning\" or \"out of place,\" must\nafter all be a mere matter of opinion, as the latter must remain a question\nof taste; since it seems to be his settled conviction that it is not\n\"impossible,\" but only \"extravagant.\" Archdeacon Nares thought it quite the\nreverse; and I beg to remind your readers that Shakspearian crocodiles are\nnever served _a la Soyer_, but swallowed _au naturel_ and entire.\n\nMR. HICKSON is dissatisfied with my terms \"mere verbiage\" and \"extravagant\nrant.\" I recommend a careful consideration of the scene over the grave of\nOphelia; and then let any one say whether or not the \"wag\" of tongue\nbetween Laertes and Hamlet be not fairly described by the expressions I\nhave used,--a paraphrase indeed, of Hamlet's concluding lines:\n\n         \"Nay, an thou'lt _mouth_,\n  I'll _rant_ as well as thou.\"\n\nDoubtless Shakspeare had a purpose in everything he wrote, and his purpose\nat this time was to work up the scene to the most effective conclusion, and\nto display the excitement of Hamlet in a series of beautiful images, which,\nnevertheless, the queen his mother immediately pronounced to be \"mere\nmadness,\" and which one must be as mad as Hamlet himself to adopt as feats\nliterally to be performed.\n\nThe offence is rank in the eyes of MR. SINGER that I should have styled MR.\nHICKSON his friend. The amenities of literature, I now perceive, do not\nextend to the case, and a new canon is required, to the effect that \"when\none gentleman is found bolstering up the argument of another, he is not,\never for the nonce, to be taken for his friend.\" I think the denial to be\nexpressed in rather strong language; but I hasten to make the _amende_\nsuitable to the occasion, by withdrawing the \"falsehood and unfounded\ninsinuation.\"\n\nMR. SINGER has further charged me with \"want of truth,\" in stating that the\nquestion remains \"substantially where Steevens and Malone had left it.\"\nWherein, I ask, substantially consists the difference?\n\nMR. SINGER has merely substituted his \"wormwood wine\" for Malone's vinegar;\nand before he can make it as palatable to common sense, and Shakspeare's\n\"logical correctness and nicety of expression,\" as it was to Creed and\nShepley, he must get over the \"stalking-horse,\" the _drink_ UP, which\nstands in his way precisely as it did in that of Malone's more legitimate\nproposition. MR. SINGER overleaps the difficulty by a bare assertion that\n\"to _drink_ UP was commonly used for simply to drink.\" He has not produced\nany parallel case of proof, with the exception of one from Mr. Halliwell's\n_Nursery Rhymes_. I adopt his citation, and shall employ it against him.\n\n_Drink_ UP can only be grammatically applied to a determinate total,\nwhether it be the river Yssell or MR. HICKSON'S dose of physic. Shakespeare\nseems to have been well acquainted with, and to have observed, the\ngrammatical rule which MR. SINGER professes not to comprehend. Thus:\n\n             \"I will drink,\n  _Potions of_ eysell.\"\n              Shaksp. _Sonnet_ cxi.\n\nand\n\n \"Give me to drink mandragora,\"\n              _Ant. and Cleop._, Act I. Sc. 5.\n\nare parallel passages, and imply quantity indeterminate, inasmuch as they\nadmit of more or less.\n\nNow MR. SINGER'S obliging quotation from the _Nursery Rhymes_,--\n\n     \"Eat UP your cake, Jenny,\n  _Drink_ UP YOUR wine\"--\n\ncertainly implies quite the reverse; for it can be taken to mean neither\nmore nor less than the identical glass of wine that Jenny had standing\nbefore her. A parallel passage will be found in Shakspeare's sonnet\n(CXIV.):\n\n \"_Drink up_ the monarch's plague, _this_ flattery:\"\n\n{211} and in this category, on the rule exponed, since it cannot positively\nappertain to the other, must, I think, be placed the line of Hamlet,--\n\n \"Woo't _drink up_ eisell?\"\n\nas a noun implying absolute entirety; which might be a _river_, but could\nnot be grammatically applied to any unexpressed quantity.\n\nNow what is the amount and value of MR. SINGER'S proposition? He says:\n\n    \"In Thomas's _Italian Dictionary_, 1562, we have 'ASSENZIO,\n    _Eysell_'[4]; and Florio renders that word [ASSENZIO, not _Eysell_?] by\n    'wormwood.' What is meant, however, is _wormwood wine_, a nauseously\n    bitter medicament then much in use.\"\n\nWhen pressed by LORD BRAYBROOKE (\"NOTES AND QUERIES,\" Vol. ii., p. 286.),\nwho proved, by an extract from _Pepys's Diary_, that wormwood wine, so far\nfrom bearing out MR. SINGER'S description, was, in fact, a fashionable\nluxury, probably not more nauseous than the _pale ale_ so much in repute at\nthe present day, MR. SINGER very adroitly produced a \"corroborative note\"\nfrom \"old Langham\" (\"NOTES AND QUERIES,\" Vol. ii., p. 315.), which,\ncuriously enough, is castrated of all that Langham wrote pertaining to the\nquestion in issue. Treating of the many virtues of the prevailing tonic as\nan appetiser, and restorer \"of a good color\" to them that be \"leane and\nevil colored,\" Langham says:\n\n    [\"Make wormwood wine thus: take _aqua vitae_ and malmsey, of each like\n    much, put it in a glasse or bottell with _a few leaves of dried\n    wormwood_, and let it stand certain days,] and strein out a little\n    spoonfull, and drink it with a draught of ale or wine: [it may be long\n    preserved.]\"[5]\n\nThus it will be seen that the reason for \"streining out a little spoonfull\"\nas a restorative for a weak stomach was less on account of the infusion\nbeing so \"atrociously unpalatable,\" than of the alcohol used in its\npreparation.\n\nDr. Venner also recommends as an excellent stomachic,\n\n    \"To drink mornings fasting, and sometimes also before dinner, _a\n    draught of wormwood-wine_ or beer:\"\n\nand we may gather the \"atrocious bitterness\" of the restorative, by the\nsubstitute he proposes: \"or, for want of them,\" he continues:\n\n    \"white wine or stale beer, wherein a few branches of wormwood have, for\n    certain hours, been infused.\"[6]\n\nDr. Parr, quoting Bergius, describes _Absinthium_ as \"a grateful\nstomachic;\" and _Absinthites_ as \"a pleasant form of the wormwood.\"[7]\n\nIs this therefore the article that Hamlet proposed to _drink_ UP with his\ncrocodile? So far from thinking so, I have ventured to coincide with\nArchdeacon Nares in favour of Steevens; for whether it be Malone's vinegar,\nor MR. SINGER'S more comfortable stomachic, the challenge to drink either\n\"_in such a rant_, is so inconsistent, and even ridiculous, that we must\ndecide for the river, whether its name be exactly found or not.\"[8]\n\nI am quite unconscious of any purport in my remarks, other than they appear\non paper; and I should be sorry indeed to accuse MR. SINGER of being\n\"ignorant\" of anything; but I venture to suggest that those young gentlemen\nof surpassing spirit, who ate crocodiles, _drank_ UP eisell, and committed\nother anomalies against nature in honor of their mistresses, belonged\ndecidedly to a period of time anterior to that of Shakspeare, and went\nquite out with the age of chivalry, of which Shakspeare saw scarcely even\nthe fag end. Your lover of Shakspeare's time was quite another animal. He\nhad begun to take beer. He had become much more subtle and self-satisfied.\nHe did sometimes pen sonnets to his mistress's eye-brow, and sing soft\nnothings to the gentle sighing of his \"Lewte.\" He sometimes indeed looked\n\"pale and wan;\" but, rather than for love, it was more than probably from\nhis immoderate indulgence in the \"newe weede,\" which he _drank_[9], though\nI never discovered that it was _drank up_ by him. He generally wore a\ndoublet and breeches of satin, slashed and lined with coloured taffata; and\nwalked about with a gilliflower in one hand, and his gloves in the other.\nHis veritable portrait is extant, and is engraved in Mr. Knight's\n_Pictorial Shakspeare_.[10]\n\nIt will be time enough to decide which of us has run his head against \"a\nstumbling-block of his own making,\" when MR. SINGER shall have found a\nprobable solution of his difficulty \"by a parallelism in the poet's pages.\"\n\nH. K. STAPLE CAUSTON.\n\n  Vassall Road, Brixton, Feb. 21. 1851.\n\n[Footnote 4: This deduction is not warranted by the _Vocab. della Crusca_,\nor any other Ital. Dic. to which I have had the opportunity of reference:\nand _Somner_ and _Lye_ are quite distinct on the A.-Sax. words, _Wermod_\nand _Eisell_.]\n\n[Footnote 5: _Garden of Health_, 4to. London, 1633. The portions within the\nbrackets were omitted by MR. SINGER.]\n\n[Footnote 6: _Via Recta ad Vitam Longam_, by Thomas Venner, M.D. 4to.\nLondon, 1660.]\n\n[Footnote 7: _Med. Dict._]\n\n[Footnote 8: A description of the rivers Yssel will be found in _Dict.\nGeograph. de la Martiniere_, v. ix. fo. 1739.]\n\n[Footnote 9: As the verb \"to drink\" was not limited to the act of bibition,\nbut for MR. HICKSON'S decision against drinking up the \"sea-serpent,\" it\nmight yet become a question whether Hamlet's _eisell_ had not been a\nmisprint for _eosol_ (asinus).]\n\n[Footnote 10: _Merchant of Venice_, Introduction.]\n\n{212}\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nReplies to Minor Queries.\n\n_William Chilcott_ (Vol. iii., pp. 38. 73.).--The few notes which follow\nare very much at the service of your correspondent. William Chilcott, M.A.,\nwas rector of St. George's, Exeter, where he died on May 30, 1711, at the\nage of forty-eight. The coat of arms on the tablet to his memory indicates\nthat he married a Coplestone. His daughter Catherine died in August, 1695.\nThe first edition of the _Practical Treatise concerning Evil Thoughts_ was\nprinted at Exeter in 1690, and was dedicated to his parishioners. Robert\nChilcott, whom I take to be the brother of William, was rector of St.\nMary-Major in Exeter, and died Feb. 7, 1689.\n\nThere does not appear to be any evidence that the persons above mentioned,\nwere descended from the Chilcotts of Tiverton, though the identity of the\nChristian names renders it probable. If the object were to trace their\nancestors or their descendants, much might be added to the suggestions of\nE.A.D. by searching the registers at Tiverton, and by comparing Prince's\n_Worthies of Devon_, ed. 1810, p. 213., and Polwhele's _Devon_, vol. iii.\np. 351., with Harding's _Tiverton_; in various parts of which eight or nine\nindividuals of the name are mentioned; especially vol. i. book ii. p. 114.;\nvol. ii. book iii. pp. 101, 102. 167. 183., and book iv., p. 20., where the\nconnexion of the Chilcotts with the families of Blundell, Hooper,\nCollamore, Crossing, Slee, and Hill, is set forth. Failing these, the\nobject might be attained by reference to the registers at Stogumber, co.\nSomerset, and of Northam, near Bideford, with the inscribed floorstones in\nthe church there. Something might perhaps be learned of their descendants\nby reference to the registers at Exeter, and those at Morchard-Bishop,\nwhere a John Chilcott resided in 1700; Nympton St. George, where a family\nof the same name lived about 1740; North Molton, where C. Chilcott was\nvicar in 1786; and Dean Prior, where Joseph Chilcott was vicar about 1830.\nA Mr. Thomas Chilcott, who was an organist at Bath, married Ann, daughter\nof the Rev. Chichester Wrey. This lady died in 1758, and was buried at\nTavistock, near Barnstaple. The coat of arms on the tablet to her memory is\nalmost identical with the coat of the Rev. William Chilcott of Exeter first\nabove mentioned.\n\nJ. D. S.\n\n_Fossil Elk of Ireland_ (Vol. iii., p. 121.).--In the _Edinburgh Journal of\nScience_, New Series, vol. ii., 1830, p. 301., is a curious paper by the\nlate Dr. Hibbert Ware, under the title of \"Additional Contributions towards\nthe History of the Cervus Euryceros, or Fossil Elk of Ireland.\" It is\nillustrated with a copy of an engraving of an animal which Dr. H. W.\nbelieves to have been the same as the Irish elk, and which was living in\nPrussia at the time of the publication of the book from which it is taken,\nviz. the _Cosmographia Universalis_ of Sebastian Munster: Basiliae, 1550.\n\nDr. H. W. in this paper refers to a former one in the third volume of the\nfirst series of the same journal, in which he advanced proofs that the\nCervus was a race which had but very recently become extinct.\n\nW. C. TREVELYAN.\n\n  Edinburgh, Feb. 19. 1851.\n\n_Canes Lesos_ (Vol. iii. p. 141.).--In a note to Beckwith's edition of\nBlount's _Jocular Tenures_, 4to. 1815, p. 225., Mr. Allan of Darlington\nanticipates your correspondent C. W. B., and says, respecting Blount's\nexplanation of \"Canes lesos,\" \"I can meet with no such word in this sense:\nwhy may it not be dogs that have received some hurt? _laesos_ from _laedo_.\"\n_Clancturam_ should be _clausturam_, and so it is given in the above\nedition, and explained \"a tax for fencing.\"\n\nS. W. SINGER.\n\n\"_By Hook or by Crook_\" (vol. iii. p. 116.).--However unimaginative the\nworthy Cit may be for whose explanation of this popular phrase J. D. S. has\nmade himself answerable, the solution sounds so pretty, that to save its\nobtaining further credence, more than your well-timed note is needed. I\nwith safety can contradict it, for I find that \"Tusser,\" a Norfolk man\nliving in the reign of Henry VIII., in a poem which he wrote as a complete\nmonthly guide and adviser for the farmer through the year, but which was\nnot published till 1590, in the thirty-second year of Queen Elizabeth, has\nthe following advice for March 30:\n\n \"Of mastiues and mongrels, that many we see\n  A number of thousands, to many there be:\n  Watch therefore in Lent, to thy sheepe go and looke,\n  For dogs will have vittels, by hooke and by crooke.\"\n\nThis must be a Norfolk phrase; for in January he advises farmers possessing\n\"Hollands,\" rich grass lands, to only keep ewes that bear twins,\n\"twinlins.\"\n\nBLOWEN.\n\nThis appears as a well-known proverbial expression long before the time\npointed out by J. D. S. Thus, in _Devout Contemplations_, by Fr. Ch. de\nFonseca, Englished by J. M., London, 1629, we read that the Devil\n\n    \"Overthroweth monasteries; through sloth and idleness soliciting\n    religious men to be negligent in coming to Church, careless in\n    preaching, and loose in their lives. In the marriage bed he soweth\n    tares, treacheries, and lightness. With worldly men he persuadeth that\n    he is nobody that is not rich, and therefore, _bee it by hooke or by\n    crooke_, by right or wrong, he would have them get to be wealthy.\"\n\nW. D--N.\n\n_Suem._--Allow me to suggest to your correspondents C. W. G. (Vol. iii., p.\n7.) and [Delta]. (Vol. iii., p. 75.), that _suem_ is probably a form of the\nA.-S. word _seam_, a _horse-load_, and generally a _burden_. For cognates,\nsee Bosworth's _A.-S. Dict._ {213} I may add, that the word is written\n_swun_ in a charter of Edward the Confessor, printed by Hickes in his\n_Thesaurus_, vol. i. p. 159., as follows:\n\n    \"--ic ann [\u021baet] ethridde treow. [et] [\u021baet] ethridde swun of aevesan ethaes\n    nextan wudes ethe li\u021b to kyngesbyrig,\" &c.\n\nWhich Hickes thus renders:\n\n    \"Dono tertiam quamque arborem, et tertiam quamque sarcinam jumentariam\n    fructuum, qui nascuntur in sylva proxime ad kyngesbyrig sita,\" &c.\n\nR. M. W.\n\n_Sir George Downing_ (Vol. iii., p. 69.).--The following extract of a\nletter in Cartes' _Letters_, ii. 319., confirms the accuracy of the\nmemorandum as to Sir G. Downing's parentage, sent you by J. P. C. The\nletter is from T. Howard to Charles II., written April 5, 1660, on the eve\nof the Restoration. Downing had offered to Howard to serve the King,--\n\n    \"alleging to be engaged in a contrary party by his father, who was\n    banished into New England, where he was brought up, and had sucked in\n    principles that since his reason had made him see were erroneous.\"\n\nCH.\n\n_Miching malicho_ (Vol. iii., p. 3.).--Your correspondent MR. COLLIER is\nprobably not aware that his suggestion respecting the meaning of _Malicho_\nhad been anticipated upwards of twenty years since. In the unpretending\nedition of Shakspeare by another of your correspondents, MR. SINGER,\nprinted in 1825, I find the following note:--\n\n    \"_Miching malicho_ is lurking mischief, or evil doing. _To mich_, for\n    to skulk, to lurk, was an old English verb in common use in\n    Shakspeare's time; and _Malicho_, or _Malhecho_, misdeed, he has\n    borrowed from the Spanish. Many stray words of Spanish and Italian were\n    then affectedly used in common conversation, as we have seen French\n    used in more recent times. The Quarto spell the word _Mallicho_. Our\n    ancestors were not particular in orthography, and often spelt according\n    to the ear.\"\n\nI have since looked at MR. COLLIER'S note to which he refers, and find that\nhe interprets _miching_ by _stealing_, which will not suit the context; and\nabundant examples may be adduced that to _mich_ was to _skulk_, to _lurk_,\nas MR. SINGER has very properly explained it. Thus Minsheu:--\n\n    \"To MICHE, or secretly hide himself out of the way, as TRUANTS doe from\n    Schoole, vi. _to hide_, to cover.\"\n\nand again--\n\n    \"A _micher_, vi. _Truant_.\"\n\nMR. COLLIER'S text, too, is not satisfactory, for he has abandoned the old\nword _Malicho_, and given _Mallecho_, which is as far from the true form of\nthe Spanish word as the old reading, which he should either have preserved\nor printed _Malhecho_, as Minsheu gives it.\n\nI am glad to see from your pages that MR. SINGER has not entirely abandoned\nShakspearian illustration, for in my difficulties I have rarely consulted\nhis edition in vain; and, in my humble opinion, it is as yet the most\npractically useful and readable edition we have.\n\nFIAT JUSTITIA.\n\n_Cor Linguae, &c._ (Vol. iii., p. 168.).--The lines quoted by J. Bs. occur\nin the poem \"De Palpone et Assentatore,\" printed in the volume of _Latin\nPoems_, commonly attributed to Walter Mapes, edited by Mr. T. Wright for\nthe Camden Society, 1841, at p. 112., with a slight variation in\nexpression, as follows:--\n\n \"Cor linguae foederat naturae sanctio,\n  Tanquam legitimo quodam connubio;\n  Ergo cum dissonant cor et locutio,\n  Sermo concipitur ex adulterio.\"\n\nMr. Wright's only source quoted for the poem is MS. Cotton, Vespas, E. xii.\nOf its authority he remarks (Preface, p. xx.), that the writer's name was\ncertainly Walter, but that he appears to have lived at Wimborne, with which\nplace Walter Map is not traced to have had any connexion; and if Mr.\nWright's conjecture be correct, that the young king alluded to in it is\nHenry III., it must of course have been written some years after Walter\nMap's death.\n\nJ. G. N.\n\n_Under the Rose_ (Vol. i., pp. 214. 458.; Vol. ii., pp. 221. 323.).--I am\nsurprised that no one has noticed Sir T. Browne's elucidations of this\nphrase. (_Vulg. Err._ lib. v. cap. 21. Sec. 7.) Besides the explanation\nreferred to by ARCHAEUS (Vol. i., p. 214.), he says:\n\n    \"The expression is commendable, if the rose from any _naturall_\n    propertie may be the symbole of silence, as Nazienzene seems to imply\n    in these translated verses--\n\n     'Utque latet Rosa verna suo putamine clausa,\n      Sic os vinela ferat, validisque arctetur habenis,\n      Indicatque suis prolixa silentia labris.'\"\n\nHe explains \"the Germane custome, which over the table describeth a rose in\nthe seeling\" (Vol. ii., pp. 221. 323.), by making the phrase to refer only\nto the secrecy to be observed \"in society and compotation, from the ancient\ncustome in Symposiacke meetings to wear chapletts of roses about their\nheads.\"\n\nACHE.\n\n\"_Impatient to speak and not see_\" (Vol. ii., p. 490.).--There is no doubt\nof the fine interpretation of your correspondent; but it is not illustrated\nby the Latin. Also, I apprehend, \"indocilis pati\" is not put for \"indocilis\npatiendi.\" It is a common use of _to_--proud to be praised; angry to be so\nill-treated.\n\nIt illustrates a line in Hotspur, the construction of which Warburton would\nhave altered:\n\n \"I then, all smarting, and my wounds being cold,\n  _To be_ so pestered,\" &c., _i.e._ at being.\n\nMay I mention a change in _Troilus and Cressida_ which I have long\nentertained, but with doubt:\n\n \"And with an accent tun'd in self-same key,\n  Retires to chiding fortune.\"\n\n{214}\n\nPope reads \"returns,\" Hanmer \"replies.\" My conjecture is \"recries.\"\n\nC. B.\n\n_Bishop Frampton_ (Vol. iii., p. 61.).--See an interesting notice of his\npreaching in Pepys' _Diary_, Jan. 20, 1666-7; and what is said of him in\nLathbury's _Nonjurors_, p. 203. But probably MR. EVANS is already aware of\nthese references to Bishop Frampton, whose life is a desideratum which many\nwill be glad to hear is going to be supplied.\n\nE. H. A.\n\n_Old Tract on the Eucharist_ (Vol. iii., p. 169.).--The author of the tract\non the Eucharist, referred to by ABHBA, was the Rev. John Patrick. The\ntitle of the tract, as given in the catalogues of Archbishop Wake, No. 22.;\nof Dr. Gee, No. 73.; and of Peck, No. 286., of the _Discourses against\nPopery during the Reign of James II._, is as follows:--\n\n    \"A Full View of the Doctrines and Practices of the Ancient Church\n    relating to the Eucharist, wholly different from those of the present\n    _Roman_ Church, and inconsistent with the Belief of Transubstantiation;\n    being a sufficient Confutation of _Consensus Veterum_, _Nubes Testium_,\n    and other late Collections of the Fathers pretending the contrary. By\n    _John Patrick, Preacher at the Charter-house_, 1688. 4to.\"\n\nE. C. HARRINGTON.\n\n  Exeter, March 3. 1851.\n\nThis tract is in 4to., and contains pp. xv. 202. It is one of the more\nvaluable of the numerous tracts published on the Roman Catholic controversy\nduring the reign of James II. In a collection of more than two hundred of\nthese made at the period of publication, and now in my library, the names\nof the authors are written upon the titles, and this is attributed to _Mr.\nPatrick_. In another collection from the library of the late Mr. Walter\nWilson, it is stated to be by _Bishop Patrick_. Bishop Gibson reprinted the\ntract in his _Preservative against Popery_, London, 1738, fol. vol. ii.\ntit. vii. pp. 176--252.; and in the table of contents says that it was\nwritten by \"Mr. Patrick, late preacher of the Charter-house.\" Not Bishop\nPatrick therefore, but his brother, Dr. John Patrick, who died 1695, aged\nsixty-three, was the author of this tract.\n\nJOHN J. DREDGE.\n\n_Was Hugh Peters ever on the Stage?_ (Vol. iii., p. 166.).--I possess\n\n    \"A Dying Father's last Legacy to an Onely Child, or Hugh Peter's Advice\n    to his Daughter. Written by his own Hand during his late Imprisonment\n    in the Tower of London, and given her a little before his Death.\n    London, 1660:\"\n\nwhich advice he ends, p. 94., with--\n\n    \"The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve you to his Heavenly\n    Kingdom, my poor child.\n\n     \"To ELIZABETH PETERS.\"\n\nAnd then, after a poem at p. 97., he commences a short sketch of his life\nwith--\n\n    \"I shall give you an account of myself and dealings, that (if possible)\n    you may wipe off some dirt, or be the more content to carry it.\"\n\nThat part of his life which would bear upon this subject reads thus, p.\n98.:--\n\n    \"When (at Cambridge) I spent some years vainly enough, being but\n    fourteen years old when thither I came, my tutor died, and I was\n    exposed to my shifts. Coming from thence, at London God struck me with\n    the sense of my sinful estate by a sermon I heard under Paul's.\"\n\nThe wonderful success of his lecture at Sepulchre's caused it to be\nasserted by his enemies, that his enthusiastic style of preaching was but\nstage buffoonery. (See p. 100.)\n\n    \"At this lecture the resort grew so great, that it contracted envie and\n    anger ... There were six or seven thousand hearers ... and I went to\n    Holland:\"\n\nthereby leaving his character to be maligned. I do not believe, from the\ntone of the condemned man's _Legacy_, that he would purposely avoid any\nmention of the stage, had he appeared on it, and \"usually performed the\npart of a clown;\" in fact it appears, that immediately on his coming into\nLondon he was awakened by the \"sermon under Paul's, which stuck fast:\" he\nalmost directly left for Essex, and was converted by \"the love and labours\nof Mr. Thomas Hooker. I there preacht;\" so that he was mostly preaching\nitinerantly in Essex, when it is asserted that he was \"a player in\nShakespeare's company.\" That _Legacy_ in question, and a book autograph of\nHugh Peters, are at the service of DR. RIMBAULT.\n\nBLOWEN.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\nNOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.\n\nAll who take an interest in English philology will join in the wish\nexpressed a few pages back by one of the highest authorities on the\nsubject, Mr. Albert Way--namely, \"that the Philological Society has not\nabandoned their project of compiling a complete Provincial Glossary;\" and\nwill greet as a valuable contribution towards that great desideratum, every\nskilful attempt to record a local dialect. As such, Mr. Sternberg's\nvaluable little book, _The Dialect and Folk Lore of Northamptonshire_, will\nmeet a hearty welcome from our philological friends; and no less hearty a\nwelcome from those who find in \"popular superstitions, fairy-lore, and\nother traces of Teutonic heathenism,\" materials for profitable speculation\non the ancient mythology of these islands. We are bound to speak thus\nfavourably of Mr. Sternberg's researches in this department, since some\nportion of them were first communicated by him to our Folk-Lore columns.\n\nBOOKS RECEIVED.--_Vestiges of the Gael in Gwynedd, by the Rev. William\nBasil Jones, M.A._ A learned essay on the subject of deep interest to the\nantiquaries {215} of the Principality, involving, as it does among other\nquestions, that of the claim of the Gael, or the Cymry, to be the\naborigines of the country.\n\n_The Book of Family Crests, comprising nearly every Family Bearing,\nproperly blazoned and explained, accompanied by upwards of Four Thousand\nEngravings, with the Surnames of the Bearers, Dictionary of Mottoes, and\nGlossary of Terms_, in 2 Vols., Sixth Edition. The best criticism on this\npopular work, with its _well blazoned_ title-page bearing the words SIXTH\nEDITION on its _honour point_, is to state, as a proof of its completeness,\nthat it records the Crests of upwards of ninety _Smiths_, and nearly fifty\n_Smyths_ and _Smythes_.\n\n_Illustrations of Medieval Costume in England, collected from MSS. in the\nBritish Museum_, by T. A. Day and J. B. Dines. When before did English\nantiquaries see four plates of costume, some of them coloured, sold for one\nshilling? As an attempt at cheapening and so popularising archaeological\nliterature, the work deserves encouragement.\n\nCATALOGUES RECEIVED.--William and Norgate's (14. Henrietta Street, Covent\nGarden) German Book Circular, No. 27.; G. Bumstead's (205. High Holborn)\nCatalogue Part 49. of Interesting and Rare Books; Cole's (15. Great\nTurnstile) List No. 33. of very Cheap Books; B. Quaritch's (16. Castle\nStreet, Leicester Square) Catalogue No. 26. of Books in all Languages.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.\n\nARCHAEOLOGIA. Vol. 3.\n\nFRERE'S TRANSLATIONS FROM ARISTOPHANES.\n\nMORRISON'S EDIT. OF BURNS' WORKS, 4 Vols., printed at Perth.\n\nHERD'S COLLECTION OF ANCIENT AND MODERN SCOTTISH SONGS, Vol. 2. Edin. 1778.\n\nBLIND HARRY'S \"WALLACE,\" edited by Dr. Jamieson. 4to. Companion volume to\n\"THE BRUCE.\"\n\nBARROW'S (ISAAC) WORKS. Vol. 1. 1683; or 8 leaves a--d, \"Some Account of\nthe Life,\" &c.\n\n*** Letters stating particulars and lowest price, _carriage free_, to be\nsent to MR. BELL, Publisher of \"NOTES AND QUERIES,\" 186. Fleet Street.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNotices to Correspondents.\n\nR. C. P. \"Thal,\" \"Theam,\" \"Thealonia,\" _in the Charter referred to, are\ncertain rights of toll, of which the peculiarities will be found in any Law\nDictionary; and \"Infangethe\" was the privilege of judging any thief within\nthe fee._\n\nS. P. Q. R. _We must refer this correspondent also to a Law Dictionary for\na full explanation of the terms Sergeant and Sergeantcy. A Deed_ Poll _is\nplain at the top, and is so called to distinguish it from a Deed_ Indented,\n_which is cut in and out at the top._\n\nTYRO. _The work quoted as_ Gammer Gurton _in the_ Arundines Cami, _is the\ncollection of_ Nursery Rhymes _first formed by Ritson, and of which an\nenlarged edition was published by Triphook in 1810, under the title of_\nGammer Gurton's Garland, _or_ The Nursery Parnassus, &c.\n\nR. C. _The music, &c. of_ \"The Roast Beef of England,\" \"Britons Strike\nHome,\" _and_ \"The Grenadier's March,\" _will be found in Mr. Chappell's_\nCollection of National English Airs. _Webbe's Glee_, \"Hail Star of\nBrunswick,\" _the words of which are by Young, may doubtless be got at\nCramer's. We cannot point out a collection containing the words and music\nof_ \"Croppies lie down.\"\n\nK. R. H. M. _All received._\n\nA. E. B. _is thanked for his suggested monogram, which shall not be lost\nsight of: also for his friendly criticism._\n\nHERMES. _We have received a packet from Holland for our correspondent. Will\nhe inform us how it may be forwarded to him?_\n\nM. or N. _The meaning of these initials in our_ Catechism _and_ Form of\nMatrimony _is still involved in great obscurity. See_ \"NOTES AND QUERIES,\"\nVol. i., pp. 415. 476.; Vol. ii., p. 61.\n\nDE NAVORSCHER. _Mr. Nult is the London Agent for the supply of our Dutch\nally, the yearly subscription to which is about Ten Shillings._\n\n\"Conder on Provincial Coins\" _has been reported to the Publisher. 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